Author: albert

I don’t think it’s a big surprise to people that people in the US Armed Forces have tortured people. I don’t think it’s a stretch to think that some of the Iraqi polics units have tortured people. But...

Okay, I’ve had a large glass of wine tonight and I’m up late reading the NY Times. Am I seeing things or does this article actually say that the Omaha, NE school districts have been resegregated to white, black and...

A new article coming out in the Quarterly Journal of Economics and discussed in this WaPo column, discusses the way people vote with regards to the race of the candidates. The study was conducted on gubernatorial and...

Flash drives are wonderful things. I don’t have one myself, but use other people’s flash drives to transfer files here and there. It’s a hell of a lot quicker than just about anything else. Apparently some...

The United States posted a $65.7 BILLION trade deficit in February. The U.S. hit a record high [or low, depending on how you frame it] in January with a $68.7 BILLION trade deficit. The end of 2005 net trade deficit was $723.6...